20 October 2006

Saving Read Papers

I'm going to have a go at doing a mini-poll. Basically, I'm interested in whether or not papers you have read (and, presumably, find interesting) find their way into a permanent spot on your machine or your physical space. Please vote :).


How do you archive papers you have read?
I save most of them to a directory on my machine
I bookmark most of them in my browser
I print most of them and save them in a filing cabinet
I same them in some other way that allows easy electronic access
I same them in some other way that allows easy physical access
I don't save them
  

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I actually do two of these -- shame the poll won't let me select more than one option...

Anonymous said...

for mac users,

http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/

it's perfect.

Anonymous said...

I've been using del.iciou.us for quite a while and find it much easier to use than the bookmark manager in my browser. The ability to add "tags" to the URL's provides easy categorization for future lookup.

Anonymous said...

My answer is: multiple. I keep hierarchical directories of .pdf / .ps papers (along with notes, papers in development, presentations, etc.) in an SVN repository, because I use multiple machines. I'm thinking of setting up some kind of searchable database or wiki but haven't invested the time. For reading research papers, I print them out and write/highlight (extensively) on them, then file them away in folders.

Anonymous said...

DevonThink is another useful too for Mac users. Being a Linux user, I haven't tried it out, but I hear it's excellent.

gringo said...

I save them and print the ones I want to read.

del.icio.us addiction has led me to half-finishing a Python script that lets me tag and look up papers from the command line. I'll get around to it if I can ever dig myself out from under all these papers ;)

Anonymous said...

I like del.icio.us, but the downside of using it for scientify papers is that it doesn't support saving bibliographic infos.

Site like Connotea or CiteULike do that better, but there are several of them (Bibsonomy is another one) and I am not sure which one to take to benefit from other users (the "social" aspects)

Anonymous said...

Arriving a bit late, I have a triplet: I save them to a local directory (laptop), I print the important/interesting ones (so I can write notes on the actual paper) and recently i have discovered the google spreadsheets thingy so I can access the links and my notes from any machine and I can share sources with colleagues. For some reason I don’t like the del.icio.us, probably it’s just about getting used to it.

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